Book review - Pierre Boulez: Organised Delirium (by Caroline Potter)
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
It is an inspired idea to couple these two contrasting works, separated as they were by momentous events. Korngold’s Sextet...
Reviewed by Adrian Edwards in issue: 04/2014
This must be a unique coupling. Schoenberg’s irrefutable masterpiece continues to prosper in the studio: standard recommendations would include the...
Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 04/2014
Up until now, Wendy Warner’s programme for Bridge of the essential Hindemith chamber pieces for cello has been by some...
Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 04/2014
Michael Finnissy is Mr Complexity, whose crunchy five-hour piano cycle The History of Photography in Sound was reviewed in Gramophone’s...
Reviewed by Philip Clark in issue: 04/2014
The superb early-18th-century chamber music of François Couperin and Jean-Féry Rebel – and a number of their French contemporaries –...
Reviewed by Julie Anne Sadie in issue: 04/2014
Pardon the cliché, but here’s a husband-and-wife piano duo who make beautiful music together. In Stravinsky’s duet reduction of Petrushka,...
Reviewed by Jed Distler in issue: 04/2014
The B flat minor Concerto has been recorded so many times that you may justifiably ask if we really need...
Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 04/2014
The revival in fortune (in the recording studio, at any rate) of the consistently warm-hearted and delectably polished music of...
Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 04/2014
I have a confession to make. Hindemith’s music really makes me angry. Not just mildly irritable but full-blown chucking-scores-at-the-speakers annoyed....
Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 04/2014
First-class recordings of Biber’s Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas are hardly rarities but there are fewer sets of Fidicinium sacro-profanum (Les Plaisirs...
Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 04/2014
Neither a biography of his early years, nor a close analysis of the pieces that blew up post-war...
Morrison’s Tchaikovsky is a rationalist who rather enjoys himself and aspires to a Mozartian poise...
This Senofsky double pack is revelatory, especially Brahms’s Third Sonata, a thrilling account with...
These are engaging, spontaneous-sounding performances that if widely heard could well spark off a...
Richard Bratby charts the relationship between the conductor and his Italian orchestra
‘Mengelberg’s performances – like Furtwängler’s – were for the most part products of careful...
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